It started with suffering.

In 2013, not unlike many other sixteen-year-olds, I was no stranger to anxiety and depression.

I was raised Presbyterian. From a young age, I gave Bible readings in church and helped (in the loosest sense of the word, probably) my grandmother teach elementary Sunday School. Now a suffering teen in the face of clinical mental anguish, I went into nature, to a special familial place, and pled with God, Jesus, and the angels to help me overcome this experience - somehow.

Not long after, my parents set me up with a wonderful psychotherapist with whom I worked for over a decade. And on July 4th of that year, my mother lent me a book about angels. And I don't think she bargained for what I'd do with it.

At age 17, I submitted a certificate request after having taken the first class of my newfound path - an angel card reader course with Radleigh Valentine. I was certified, and with further study in the programs of Charles Virtue and several more, practiced bringing meaningful spiritual guidance and healing from the spirit realms to myself and others.

In 2016, I began facilitating public message circles (readings for a group in ceremony), and taught my first spiritual class. I also began my formal study of shamanism and shamanic healing. After a series of advanced trainings, I applied and was accepted into the world-renowned shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman, MA's Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanic Journeying, Healing, and Medicine for the Earth the following year, and I graduated the program in 2020.

Now, combining about a decade of experience working with others, I conduct in-Spirited psychic reading, healing, and counseling services, and teach public and private trainings in shamanism and shamanic healing.

I have had the privilege of working with a diverse array of issues from a just-as-diverse array of clients across the globe. I aim to create an inclusive space in my work, including for racial and ethnic minorities and fellow LGBTQ+ people. In addition to primarily holding my own courses and events, I have presented on television, radio, and webinar series, and taught for library and artistic centers, spiritual stores and healing spaces, the Institute for Spiritual Development Washington D.C., and the Free Thinker Institute.

Furthermore, I have had the great honor of assisting celebrated teachers in their own programs. I served as faculty assistant to Radleigh Valentine during his Creating a Magical Life with the Angels workshop at Kripalu in 2019 (a full-circle moment!).​ I was later an assistant for Sandra Ingerman’s nine-week course, The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman's Light (she and I also recorded a video dialogue entitled "Shamanism and the Younger Generations" as a course bonus session). I assisted her Taking Medicine for the Earth Work to Higher Frequencies for the Benefit of our Health and the Planet in 2023, and sponsored an educational and ceremonial reunion of her trained teachers in Taos. And it is with immense excitement that I am an assistant to Ingerman’s 10th and final Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing in the deserts of New Mexico this year and next.

In that role, I will also train late-add studentship in how to teach an advanced Shamanic Extraction Training.

I emphasize the importance of skilled science, unity consciousness, and integrative healthcare in my work. I have maintained certification in Adult Mental Health First Aid through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing since 2018, and graduated cum laude with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, where I also served as a research assistant and a teacher's assistant in two psychology lab courses (which funny enough, included rudimentary exercises on psychic ability).

I am the youngest instructing member of Ingerman’s ShamanicTeachers.com, an international alliance of shamanic and Medicine for the Earth practitioners and instructors bringing shamanic and environmental healing work to the global community with ethics and efficacy.

I recently relocated to my brilliant new home of Vancouver, Washington with my partner Alexi, who is pursuing his second master’s degree as the John W. Ryan Fellow at the Indiana University O’Niell School of Public and Environmental Affairs. In my spare time, I enjoy playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game against the global community and adding cards to my collection, sipping homemade chocolate berry smoothies to whatever new show Alexi and I are watching, hoping desperately that the eastern marmot somehow migrates permanently to the West Coast so that I may snuggle them, and cracking horrendous jokes to my friends that make them quite relieved that my dream is not to be a successful (or even passable) comedian.